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how old are the F-16s we are flying? I have tried my best to find out how the F-16 fight control works and eveything given is information on what I consider old planes. Do we have any F-16s we are flying, that are newer than 4 or 5 years old?

I worked as an engineer for General Dynamics in Ft. Worth from 1982-85. At that time, the F-16 had already been in production for a few years. I looked it up, first flight 1974 and entered service in 1978. That's earlier than I thought. It was the first production aircraft to use fly-by-wire. The USAF bought their last F-16 in 2005, but they are still manufactured for several US allies. Last one from FT. Worth plant last November with a two-year shutdown while they move production to Greenville, South Carolina.

Yes, I was reading about the fly-by-wine.

As the term implies, fly by wire (FBW) replaces conventional mechanical flight controls with an electronic interface. The pilot's movements of the flight controls are converted to electrical signals, which are interpreted by the flight control computers.

Fly-by-wire control systems allow aircraft computers to perform tasks without pilot input. ...

I am then asking... can the planes system be hacked into?